The Tirana 48 Hour Film Project

TIRANA, Sept. 20 – The 48 Hour Film Project comes to Tirana on the weekend of 12 – 14 October 2012 for its third edition. Filmmakers from all over Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia and Diaspora will compete to see who can make the best short film in only 48 hours. The winning film will go up against films from around the world.
The 48-hour film festival featured problems in Albania, and the echo that different social problems leave in our mentality. “We will not only bring success but also export culture, we will produce films which will be exported abroad and promoted in 81 countries of the globe,” said the festival’s organizer Robert Aliaj.
The 48 Hour Film Project is a wild and sleepless weekend in which you and a team make a movieطrite, shoot, edit and score itةn just 48 hours. On Friday night, you get a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre, all to include in your movie. 48 hours later, the movie must be complete. Then it will show at a local theater, usually in the next week.
In 2012, over 50,000 filmmakers will make almost 4,000 films in 120 cities on 6 continents around the world. Over the 11 years of 48 Hour Film Project over 19,000 films have been made by 278,000 people.
Ten of the best films of the 2012 Tour will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival’s Short Film Corner in 2013.